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Announcing the latest (possibly greatest!) Tales from Space short story contest! Now’s your chance to write in the hugely popular, dynamic, collaborative world of the Galactic Association of Globes and Asteroids (GAGA), and to tell your story with your favorite characters in Tales from Space. We are accepting applications staring March 1, 2022 – closing…
Due to an unfortunate failure on the part of a local organization to provide agreed-upon funding support, the Words from the River Lands anthology has been delayed, and its prize structure altered. While it was intended for the Enderby & District Chamber of Commerce to provide funds to allow local organizations such as the Community…
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StarkLight Press is happy to announce the upcoming release of a new poetry and photography anthology by Lucie Guerre. Soulstice is a collection of poems and images that take the reader through the cyclical changes of love, life and relationships.
You can find Lucie’s Book at the StarkLight Press Bookstore later in February- check in later this week for a voice interview with the author where she discusses her poetry, her interests and her thoughts on this first published anthology!
StarkLight Press is pleased to announce its latest poetry collection by Canadian author Lucie Guerre. This beautiful anthology of poetry and photography celebrates life, love, family and togetherness in the modern world.
Look for Lucie Guerre’s Soulstice, in February, 2017, just in time for Valentine’s Day! Tune in here later this month for exclusive interviews with the poet herself as she talks about her journey and her work.
In the meantime, you can find Lucie as an author on Facebook at The Writings and Musings of Lucie Guerre.
I am pleased to announce the completion of the First Annual StarkLight Press 24 Hour Poetry Marathon!
We had ten poets take part in our day long poetry extravaganza, and are amazed by the creativity and heartfelt poetic lines that emerged.
A gigantic thank you to all our poets!
The anthology, still to be named, featuring poems from this incredible creative journey will be available later this autumn. Look for release information here!
Remarkable poems, gifted writers, amazing experience- join us next year for StarkLight Press’ 24 Hour Poetry Marathon and take part in the incredible!
– Tony Stark,
Publisher and CEO,
StarkLight Press.
It’s here- that moment you’ve all been waiting for-
The StarkLight Volume 5 Short Story Contest!
That’s right, now you can send in your original short stories to our latest edition of StarkLight Anthology! Be it horror, or fantasy, science fiction, suspense or speculative fiction, send us your original piece before Feb 28, 2017, for a chance to win a coveted spot in one of the most talked-about anthologies in North America.
You can have a look at our submission guidelines here:
Be sure to like us on facebook at www.facebook.com/StarkLight-Press/ to hear updates about this contest, as well as other cool short story and poem opportunites we have for authors this year.
– Tony Stark,
Publisher and CEO,
StarkLight Press.
At StarkLight Press we love poetry.
We believe in Poetry. We believe in its ability to heal ourselves, each other, and the world.
It’s magic, plain and simple.
So, to bring a little more good magic into the world, we are hosting a 24 Poetry Marathon for any interested poets.
(for those who don’t have the time for a full marathon, you’re also welcome to join in for a half marathon)
What is a poetry marathon? It’s a block of time where, once every interval, you write a poem, either based on a prompt given by the organizers or based on whatever comes to mind.
Our First Annual StarkLight Press Poetry Marathon is an online event starting at 9am PST on August 20, and goes until 9 am PST August 21.
If you’d like to join the marathon, email us at starklightdesk@gmail.com or contact the Press via our Facebook Page http://facebook.com/StarkLightPress/
As an added incentive, selected poems will be published in our Poetry Marathon anthology and will be sold internationally as well as available for e-reading online through several venues.
Share your heart, your thoughts, make some magic- join our Poetry Marathon today!
Our first were-themed anthology is set to hit bookshelves in stores across North America on August 21, 2016!
This rollicking read features stories about transformation into anything… wolves, fossas, lamps… this anthology is filled with spine-chilling misadventures of people who tangled with the light of the full moon, and the monsters that emerge from it.
Featuring a bevvy of new authors, as well as StarkLight Press favorites, Blue Moon Season is perhaps our most horrifying, entertaining anthology to date!
Check into StarkLight Press all this week for interviews with our winning authors, including:
Piper Tadwell Van Fleming
Mod Welles Will Norton
Tara O’Neill Jeren Nethers
Alfie Elkins Virginia Carraway Stark
Nicholas Vincenzi Leanne Caine
Cathy Illes
and more!
Congratulations to all of our winning authors!
Look for Blue Moon Season Anthology August 21 on Amazon and Scribd, as well as in bookstores in British Columbia, Ohio, Ontario and California!
– Tony Stark,
Publisher and CEO,
StarkLight Press.
To celebrate our monthly paranormal magazine, Outermost: A Journal of the Paranormal, StarkLight Press is happy to announce that all 8 titles are FREE for the month of July!
Kick back in the sun this summer and enjoy over two hundred pages of gripping, spine-tingling paranormal facts, articles and fiction short stories about topics like:
UFOs
Aliens
Angels and Demons
Psychics and Psychic Powers
and more!
You can find them online here, for FREE, only for July. Look for Issue 9, (also free for July) coming out on the 15th of this month!
https://www.scribd.com/document/317471527/Outermost-Vol-1-Issue-2
Kisses from Boreas
by Virginia Carraway Stark
After some twenty of them
had been disposed of
during the waning moon
with costumes and masks and
enchantments
he now wished he had not sacrificed
his sons
laughing
they would never throw themselves
down weeping
to die of grief
we have to rise
just as vegetation dies only to
reappear in the springtime
what’s wrong with the way I kiss?
Asked the winter wind
everything
I replied even as I thanked Boreas
in the deep of my heart
for the sweet relief from the smoke
and the flames
then it was
during the waxing moon
when costumes are removed
masks unmasked
enchantment revealed
and winter is come
– art pencil on paper, 8×10, Copyright 2008 Virginia Carraway Stark
Poerm previously published in “In Flight” magazine.
You can watch Virginia Carraway Stark read her poem here:
Here’s some information on the mythic Boreas, God of the North Wind:
